PDF of a blueprint comes up as a whole image instead of individual lines.

PDF of a blueprint comes up as a whole image instead of individual lines. I have tried tracing it and that does not pull out the individual lines also, stays a one image only. how do I get just the individual lines?

Several pdfs worked perfectly during my testing before going this route. it wasn't until later that I found some files have this issue. I can not find what the difference is between files that work and files that don't. Ones that work come up as individual lines right away, ones that don't are one solid image.
As Jacob mentioned in post #7, the file in question is a scanned (raster) image of an old drawing which may not even exist in vectors ('individual lines,' as it were) anymore, if it ever had. You can't make assumptions based on the fact that a file is in PDF format. A PDF can contain all raster image data, all vector data, and/or a mix of both.
What is the difference between vector and raster graphics?

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